Hi Pythonians
I am sorry if I am stepping in some stinky water and bringing terrible
smell along with me...
I am aware of "Report on the situation of python2.5 in Debian" which is
a clean description why python2.5 is not yet default in lenny/sid.
Someone could bring a debian policy as an argument that
alternatives must provide equivalent level of functionality and
different versions of python wouldn't do so since they might brake some
of the pieces.
I know that there are some packages which ship modules/programs
targeted only at 2.4 and not working with 2.5, but probably most of them
has hard coded call to python2.5 in their headers (if that is under
/bin) -- at least my first sample which was "buxon". But probably most
critical ones are ok to work with 2.5 now.
I know that some packages might not yet ship extensions built for 2.5,
but still, since lenny is targetting python >= 2.5, and unstable is
unstable, why don't we allow users to experiment a bit and change
default python on their systems to python2.5? (yeah yeah -- they could
probably simply ln -sf python2.5 /usr/bin/python, but that is not the
point, since alternatives are there to provide such facility)
due to my partial ignorance on the subject I am not sure what to
do with /usr/share/python/debian_defaults ... May be include it into
update-alternatives group and ship one with 2.5 as the default?
In any case -- I don't see much harm by providing users with ability to
test how well python2.5 can handle their debian system (or actually vise
versa). Also some very experimental people might eventually give a spin
to some version of pypy-translated python as the default... some
time...
In any case -- I just wanted to raise a concern and may be some
discussion -- may be I should simply a wishlist bug against python?
Cheers
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Yaroslav Halchenko
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Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT
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